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The New DU. Reply #34: Working Class are the "proletariat", comrade!
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haele
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Mon Jun-04-07 09:30 PM
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| 34. Working Class are the "proletariat", comrade! |
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Edited on Mon Jun-04-07 09:32 PM by haele
Working class is defined as those who trade their unskilled or semi-skilled labor for survival wages.
Marx defines working class as property-less factory workers or laborers. Farm workers can be working class, though the farmer who "owns" the farm himself is not.
Skilled or graduate degree labor that can own or inherit property has always been considered professional - part of the bourgeois. Your friend is not working class.
I'm not working class either - I'm skilled (electrical engineering by way of the OJT) and management, even though I was at one time considered working class.
Haele
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